The Zumba Crew - February

Hi I'm Lyndi. I'm 31 I have been doing Zumba for about 3 weeks. I love it!

I LOVE ZUMBA!!!

I detest tomatoes.

Hi, I'm new here, and I just got home from Zumba!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I hate honey, marmite and olives. I just got fat eating everything else lol.

Nice to meet you zumbaholics

Izzy xx

I decided to do Zumba for the whole month of February and no other exercise to see how much I lose. I'm not weighing myself till March 1st so I can't wait to see the results!

You know people kept asking me if its better than walking but because I mix up the two I am never sure.
So this sounds like a great idea.....maybe I'll try this starting today (was sick so I havent done any workouts in a week)
How many day a week do you ZUmba? DO you follow theirs plans are do you do your own?

I actually have it on the Xbox Kinect. I'm doing it everyday except Sunday (my day of rest). Hopefully my dvds will be here soon.

I am Wendi. Mother of two little girls and love zumba. I took my first class this fall through the community college here. I am restarting it at the end of march when the weather is a little warmer and don't have to worry about classes being canceled due to snow.

Hi, I'm Shauna and I am super excited to try out Zumba tonight....the instructor looks so inspiring!!! I'll have to let you know how it goes, just waiting for my DH to get home and I'll be on my way out the door!

As for food I detest, mushrooms, olives, and most seafood.

Hopefully my dvds will be here soon.

Would you mind listing the dvds you ordered? I have no idea what I'm looking for but I'd like to try this.

Zumba Fitness. Its a info-mercial. I found someone on craigslist that is selling the new set for $40.

I did my first live Zumba class yesterday and I wasn't very happy with it. I don't think that Rude Boy is a suitable Zumba song, but maybe that's just me. I'm sure the instructor had a lot to do with it, but I enjoy it much more on the game at home. I receive some kind of feedback (no feedback in class) and I think I just feel more free to really shake it when I'm alone and not surrounded by mirrors!

I think it's like when someone reads the book before it comes out as a movie -- no one ever says the movie was better! Maybe if I did the classes first, I'd enjoy them more. Glad I didn't commit to the fees (had a free week pass).

The beat of Rude Boy is a suitable song, but perhaps the words aren't. If you are offended by them then speak to the instructor. She or he can remove that song the next time.

No sorry, I'm not offended by the lyrics. They have a seperate Hip Hop class, and the moves she was doing for Zumba were clearly lifted from the Hip Hop class. Personally I think that they're two different styles of dancing, and if that's wrong, then that's just my opinion. Standing for two minutes doing pelvic thrusts wasn't really what I thought I had signed up for. I could do that standing in the bathroom at work. I signed up for Zumba because I wanted to dance and sweat and burn calories.

Unfortunately hip hop steals a lot of their moves from other styles. So what you might consider to be hip hop can be a number of different styles. I've seen alot of them in Zumba, Bollywood, African....the list goes on.

You are not wrong to have your opinion but pelvic thrust are excellent for your abs if you are tightened them at the time.

I guess she didn't mix it up enough. Maybe she is a new instructor with limit knowledge on the dance style.

That was my experience exactly....I Zumba 3 - 5 times a week for 2 years now and heard some really great things about a particular instructor, so I made her class this morning....THOROUGHLY disappointed. Not even close to Zumba, but boy do they love her that session was packed. Very little Latin moves.

I grew up with this stuff, so I have pretty high expectations. Sure wish they had to include a certain percentage authentic. I'll never quit going....but I'll probably get a little more picky about which ones I frequent.

If only I were 20 years younger!! :devil: :laugh:

Howdy, Im Danielle and I have been doing only zumba now for 2 months and its rocking my socks off!

I did my first live Zumba class yesterday and I wasn't very happy with it. I don't think that Rude Boy is a suitable Zumba song, but maybe that's just me. I'm sure the instructor had a lot to do with it, but I enjoy it much more on the game at home. I receive some kind of feedback (no feedback in class) and I think I just feel more free to really shake it when I'm alone and not surrounded by mirrors!

I think it's like when someone reads the book before it comes out as a movie -- no one ever says the movie was better! Maybe if I did the classes first, I'd enjoy them more. Glad I didn't commit to the fees (had a free week pass).

The beat of Rude Boy is a suitable song, but perhaps the words aren't. If you are offended by them then speak to the instructor. She or he can remove that song the next time.

No sorry, I'm not offended by the lyrics. They have a seperate Hip Hop class, and the moves she was doing for Zumba were clearly lifted from the Hip Hop class. Personally I think that they're two different styles of dancing, and if that's wrong, then that's just my opinion. Standing for two minutes doing pelvic thrusts wasn't really what I thought I had signed up for. I could do that standing in the bathroom at work. I signed up for Zumba because I wanted to dance and sweat and burn calories.

Unfortunately hip hop steals a lot of their moves from other styles. So what you might consider to be hip hop can be a number of different styles. I've seen alot of them in Zumba, Bollywood, African....the list goes on.

You are not wrong to have your opinion but pelvic thrust are excellent for your abs if you are tightened them at the time.

I guess she didn't mix it up enough. Maybe she is a new instructor with limit knowledge on the dance style.

That was my experience exactly....I Zumba 3 - 5 times a week for 2 years now and heard some really great things about a particular instructor, so I made her class this morning....THOROUGHLY disappointed. Not even close to Zumba, but boy do they love her that session was packed. Very little Latin moves.

I grew up with this stuff, so I have pretty high expectations. Sure wish they had to include a certain percentage authentic. I'll never quit going....but I'll probably get a little more picky about which ones I frequent.

If only I were 20 years younger!! :devil: :laugh:

The Zumba class I go to is taught by 2 professional latin dancers, so the dance content is obviously really high, but each class costs £7. So when my gym started a Zumba class which would be included in my membership, I thought 'brilliant' I can save some cash by going to that class once a week instead. OMG! It was the worst class I've ever experienced. The instructor either couldn't remember her own choreography, or she was making it up on the spot as there was no consistency in the moves, then she couldn't keep up with it and kept stopping to catch her breath. She didn't break down the moves to make them easier to pick up. And she kept going back to her iPod between songs to find the next track instead of just preparing a playlist. After trying her class I'm now happily paying for my Zumba classes because the instructors know what they're doing, there's a brilliant, fun, encouraging, supportive atmosphere and I really love doing it!

@scagneti

Try a different drop in class, on the Zumba site you can contact the instructors, maybe give them a call to get a run down on format of the class?

I did my first live Zumba class yesterday and I wasn't very happy with it. I don't think that Rude Boy is a suitable Zumba song, but maybe that's just me. I'm sure the instructor had a lot to do with it, but I enjoy it much more on the game at home. I receive some kind of feedback (no feedback in class) and I think I just feel more free to really shake it when I'm alone and not surrounded by mirrors!

I think it's like when someone reads the book before it comes out as a movie -- no one ever says the movie was better! Maybe if I did the classes first, I'd enjoy them more. Glad I didn't commit to the fees (had a free week pass).

The beat of Rude Boy is a suitable song, but perhaps the words aren't. If you are offended by them then speak to the instructor. She or he can remove that song the next time.
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No sorry, I'm not offended by the lyrics. They have a seperate Hip Hop class, and the moves she was doing for Zumba were clearly lifted from the Hip Hop class. Personally I think that they're two different styles of dancing, and if that's wrong, then that's just my opinion. Standing for two minutes doing pelvic thrusts wasn't really what I thought I had signed up for. I could do that standing in the bathroom at work. I signed up for Zumba because I wanted to dance and sweat and burn calories.
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Unfortunately hip hop steals a lot of their moves from other styles. So what you might consider to be hip hop can be a number of different styles. I've seen alot of them in Zumba, Bollywood, African....the list goes on.

You are not wrong to have your opinion but pelvic thrust are excellent for your abs if you are tightened them at the time.

I guess she didn't mix it up enough. Maybe she is a new instructor with limit knowledge on the dance style.
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Yes, I do think that she was new. I expected one playlist to go for the entire hour (with a few seconds between songs), not her running over at the end of EVERY song while she took a minute or so to find the next song that she wanted to play (sometimes we'd have the start of two or three songs before she got one she wanted). That seems unprofessional to me.

Sadly this was my first live class, so when you have a negative experience, you tend to remember that. I know not all classes would be the same (obviously), but from MY experience, I had a lot more fun and got a lot more out of the class on the Wii than a live class.
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I did the Zumba Fitness Cardio Party this morning. Unfortunately I like the Xbox Kinect Zumba better. Plus I burn more calories with it. Almost 200 more calories. I'm going to try to sculpt and tone tomorrow. Maybe that will give me a better workout. If not. Then on the shelf the DVDs will go and I will stick with the Kinect Zumba.

I somewhat feel like I just wasted 45 mins. My heart rate stay around 155 and I'm use to it being between 165 - 170.

Hi I am claire, 23, Just started Zumba last week and smiled all the way through it. Signed up to a month - amazing workout!

Food I dislike = fish

My name's Louise and I love Zumba I'm a "picky eater" and I can't stand onions (unless diced very finely), spices and most meats (duck, lamb, pork, veal). I eat mostly chicken with some fish and beef. My favourite part about my Zumba class is the instructor. I've had two really amazing ones. The first was super fun, built like a tank, moved every part of her individually and encouraged us to "get low". Her tracks were also themed: "African", "Bollywood" and "Hip-Hop" to name a few. My current instructor (different city, different class) is a real motivator and her classes are very demanding.

To those who have had a bad instructor, I'm sorry Don't let them ruin Zumba for you! Find another class in your area because you really do work harder and have more fun if your instructor is a bundle of fun! They should have a play-list of songs already made up. My instructors occasionally stopped the class to explain high and low impact options for the next track or to change the volumes from our workout to our cool-down exercises.